About Becky Thatcher

Becky Thatcher has blonde hair that is pulled into two braids. When she first meets Tom she shows Tom her drawing skills and they agree to meet so she can teach him. But when they meet Tom persuades her to get engaged to him. I think that one of her external motivations was that Tom kept on telling her how nice being engaged was. Her internal motivation for agreeing was that she believed him and wanted to feel the way Tom said she would. When Becky starts crying afterwards her external motivation was that Tom had accidentally told her that he and Amy Lawrence, his old girlfriend, had been engaged too, right after they both already swore not to ever love anybody else or marry anybody else but each other. Her internal motivation was that she now knew that Tom would probably do the same thing that he did to Amy Lawrence to her, but she had just sworn not to love anyone else but him, and she saw the pickle she was in. Also when Tom tried to give her his most prized possesion and she threw it on the ground.
When Becky doesn't show up at school for a while I think that she was trying to make Tom upset on purpose. For example, when she does come to school, and all of a sudden it's obvious Tom is clearly trying to impress her again she sticks her nose in the air and talks about how people are always showing off and stuff. And this really hurts Tom. I think Becky's internal motivation was that she was trying to get back at Tom and make him feel bad. Her external motivation was what Tom had done and made her do.